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Mridang Agarwalla
Mridang Agarwalla

Reputation: 45108

Getting the value of a field in the default language in django-transmeta

I'm using django-transmeta to help with my multi-lingual models. Here's an example model of mine:

class Edition(models.Model):

    __metaclass__ = TransMeta

    name = models.CharField(max_length=64)

Could anyone tell me how I can get the value of the name field in the default language. I'd like to override the __unicode__ method of the model so I can display a meaningful title. Currently it is displayed as Edition Object and is not very helpful.

Thanks.

Edit: I've managed to do it like this but this relies on the fact the language code is hardcoded.

class Edition(models.Model):

    __metaclass__ = TransMeta

    name = models.CharField(max_length=64)

def __unicode__(self):

    return self.name_en

Upvotes: 2

Views: 252

Answers (2)

laffuste
laffuste

Reputation: 17105

ModelTranslation uses the same convention (_en, _fr, ...) but makes use of it transparently depending on the current request language.

https://github.com/deschler/django-modeltranslation

Also, it's still currently active.

Upvotes: 1

Goin
Goin

Reputation: 3974

Hi I am a developer of django-transmeta. For each internationalized field, you have a property with the name field original.

edition = Edition.objects.all()[0]
print edition.name
print edition.name_en
print edition.name == edition.name_en

If it's not work, you should check LANGUAGE_CODE and TRANSMETA_DEFAULT_LANGUAGE (this is optional) in your settings

Upvotes: 2

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